β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.
β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.